[MCN] Who wants food to be sustainable? Who's opposed?

[Lance Olsen]

Science 9 October 2015:
Vol. 350 no. 6257 pp. 165-166
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2031

POLICY FORUM
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"  ...  we discuss the need to incorporate sustainability into 
dietary guidelines and the political maneuvering under way to excise 
it."
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FOOD SCIENCE
Designing a sustainable diet
Kathleen Merrigan et al

Corresponding author. E-mail: kmerrigan at gwu.edu

Summary:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6257/165.summary

In the United States, a vigorous debate is under way over 
government-issued dietary guidance. A February 2015 report by the 
U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) recommended, for 
the first time, that food system sustainability be an integral part 
of dietary guidance in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans 
(DGAs) (1). With the final decision from the secretaries of Health 
and Human Services (HHS) and of Agriculture (USDA) about what parts 
of the DGAC recommendations to include in the 2015 DGAs expected at 
the end of this year, we discuss the need to incorporate 
sustainability into dietary guidelines and the political maneuvering 
under way to excise it.
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the causes immediate and instrumental: for these are all the causes 
they perceive."

Attributed  to Thomas Hobbes
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"Making connections is the essence of scientific progress."

Chris Quigg, "Aesthetic Science,"
Scientific American, April 1999
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global warming, ecological responses to recent climate change are 
already clearly visible."

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